Man in hospital after gun goes off in Edmonton courthouse storage locker

A man was transported to hospital with a gunshot wound after the discharge of a firearm in a locker armory at the Edmonton courthouse Friday morning. 

Officers stopped traffic at the intersection of 99 Street and 103A Ave. to make way for the ambulance escorted by police around 10:25 a.m. Sheriffs inside the 1A Sir Winston Churchill Square courthouse said there had been a “medical incident.”
 
“It was reported that there was a firearm discharged in a locker armory. EMS treated and transported a male to hospital with serious injuries,” said city police spokeswoman Noreen Remtulla.
 
Alberta Health Services spokesman Kerry Williamson said the patient was transported to hospital in stable condition.

Downtown division officers are now investigating the gun call that came in just after 10 a.m.